The Home Front meets Covid-19

Sayschezza

Over 70s are supposed to stay isolated for 12 weeks so no going to the supermarket.
Tonight we had chicken and mushroom risotto made with the stock and scraps of chicken that I froze from last weeks roast chicken dinner. Didn't have any Parmesan so stirred in some strong grated cheddar before serving and it was delicious.

thriftwizard

Clarification, from the NHS's own website:
"People at increased risk

You may be at increased risk from coronavirus if you:are 70 or olderare pregnanthave a condition that may increase your risk from coronavirusHow to protect yourself from coronavirusThe advice for people who may be at increased risk from coronavirus is the same as for most other people.You should only leave the house for very limited purposes:shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possibleone form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle – alone or with members of your householdany medical need, including to donate blood, avoid or escape risk of injury or harm, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable persontravelling for work purposes, but only where you cannot work from home"So over 70s without other health problems technically can go to the shops, BUT it's probably best avoided if you can.

Nargleblast

I had an email from Sainsbury's today asking customers to make sure only one adult goes in to do the shopping. If two adults turn up one of them will be asked to wait outside. Obviously children are exempt, if there's no possibility of them staying at home.

Pyxis

thriftwizard said:

Clarification, from the NHS's own website:
"People at increased risk

You may be at increased risk from coronavirus if you:

• are 70 or older
• are pregnant
• have a condition that may increase your risk from coronavirus

How to protect yourself from coronavirus

The advice for people who may be at increased risk from coronavirus is the same as for most other people.

You should only leave the house for very limited purposes:

• shopping for basic necessities, for example food and medicine, which must be as infrequent as possible
• one form of exercise a day, for example a run, walk, or cycle – alone or with members of your household
• any medical need, including to donate blood, avoid or escape risk of injury or harm, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person
• travelling for work purposes, but only where you cannot work from home"

So over 70s without other health problems technically can go to the shops, BUT it's probably best avoided if you can.

Nargleblast said:

I had an email from Sainsbury's today asking customers to make sure only one adult goes in to do the shopping. If two adults turn up one of them will be asked to wait outside. Obviously children are exempt, if there's no possibility of them staying at home. 

I should add that I believe that the strongly-worded advice is that people should not meet up with people outside their own household, which suggests that meeting a friend to go to a supermarket is not advisable.

Plus, lets, face it, the fewer and fewer people that do go out, or meet up, the less this thing will spread,  the more quickly it can be dealt with,  and fewer people will DIE. ☹️

-taff

 It''s proably less dangerous to go in a car in a back seat than go on the bus which is never disinfected.

Monna, does your local council do free food boxes for the over *cough* 70's ?

Pyxis

-taff said:

 It''s proably less dangerous to go in a car in a back seat than go on the bus which is never disinfected.

Monna, does your local council do free food boxes for the over *cough* 70's ?

It isn’t just about the danger to oneself, though, it is also about the danger of picking up the virus and spreading it around.

An individual might not get ill, but they might have spread the virus to two or more other people by leaving it on surfaces, eg the seats of the car, the door handles, everything they might touch and breathe on.

-taff

Yes. But again. If it's a choice of bus or car, then car it would be. Surely it's obvious that a car wil potentially have less viral load than a bus?

jinny

needmoney said:

@jinny this made me smile "a strong cuppa across me lips."   and your hard up soup sounds lovely.

Yes my Grannie used this phrase when she got up In the morning and the cat had left a “present” on the kitchen floor. “Ill deal with that when ive had a strong cup of tea across me lips” 
My dads saying were 
“see a job and do it” and
“is that a want or a need? “ when I  bought yet another pair of shoes
My Mam  would say “oh get them you will get over it”
any other family sayings that you find yourself saying? 
Mine are “Oh its happened, I'm turning into my Mam” The kids will answer “yes total Nana”

jinny

If your reading this you are probably ok. Thank goodness.
stay safe everyone. XXX

jinny

Started a make do and mend repair and fix it/ to do list.
its quite large.  Its on my phone notes.

So I'm taking three items to tackle each day.  If they don't get done i will roll them over
Today:
*food inventory then meal plan
*tidy chuck it in and close the door cubby.
*cut up old tee shirts for cloths

there is a family that live on a bottom flat the bus stop is outside their flat they have fly tipped some rubbish they've decluttered left it in the bus shelter.   I know its theirs because it was in their yard. Not there now. Its not a lot but really! 
This is turning  me into a mrs Bucket curtain twitcher.